Footnotes

Source: UNECE Statistical Database, compiled from national and international (UNICEF TransMONEE) official sources.

Definition:Child-care refers to formal child-care arrangements, public or private, such as group care in child-care centres (creche) or registered childminders based in their own homes looking after two or more children. Child-care refers to children at youngest age (typically children aged under 3); pre-primary schools are excluded.

Enrolment in child-care centres: Number of children aged under 3 enrolled in child-care centres per 100 children of the same age group. Data normally refer to beginning of the school-year.

Availability of places in child-care centres: Ratio of the number of places available for children aged under 3 in child-care centres per 100 children of the same age group. Data refer to beginning of the school-year.

General note: depending on the organization of education and child-care centers in countries, data may be available for age groups different from under 3 years. Such differences and other deviations from the above definitions are specified in country notes.

Reference period (2004): As of 2004, reference month changed from March to September.

Country: Estonia

Change in definition (1995 - 2007): Data refer to children aged 1?2 years.

Country: Estonia

Change in definition (2008 onward): Data refer to children aged 0-2 years.

Country: Estonia

Reference period (1995 - 2008): Data refer to middle of the school year, i.e. end of calendar year.

Country: Estonia

Reference period (2009 onward): Data refer to beginning of school year.

Country: Finland

Change in definition (2000 - 2012): Data refer to end of calendar year.

Country: Finland

The data include full- and part-time care in day care centres and families

Country: France

Data cover only Metropolitan France. Child care refers to child care centers and registered childminders based in their own homes. The data exclude pre-primary school, kindergartens, unregistered childminders and childminders working at home. Available places are here counted regardless of the age of the children actually using them : all of them are theorically available for 0-2 years old but some of them are in practice used for children aged 3 or more.

Children in day care are included starting with reference year 2012/2013 according to definition of ISCED Level 010 in ISCED 2011.

Country: Hungary

Change in definition (1990 - 2007): Data for available places refer to all children enrolled including children aged 3+ years.Data referred only to nurseries, from 2008 day care and child minding are also included.

Country: Hungary

Reference period (1990 onward): Data refer to 31 May of each year

Country: Iceland

Change in definition (1990 - 2012): Data refer to children aged 0-2 years in formal child-care arrangements and with registered private child-minders.

Change in definition (2001 - 2012): Data refer to children aged 0-2 years enrolled in permanent pre-primary organizations functioning at least 10 months per year. Data do not cover other types of existing organizations such as seasonal kindergartens etc.

Country: Kyrgyzstan

Reference period (1990 - 2012): Data refer to the end of the year.

Country: Lithuania

Data refer to children aged 1-2 years. Data refer to end of calendar year

Country: Montenegro

Change in definition (2000 - 2012): Data refer to children aged 0-2 years enrolled in pre-primary public organizations.

Data refer to end of calendar year. i.e. 2000/2001 data refer to December 2000.

Country: Poland

From 2000 onwards, data concern health care facility: nurseries and nursery wards of nursery schools. Since 2011, the data also apply to children’s club which are a new form of childcare.

Country: Poland

Reference period (from 2000 onwards): The data in the two-year period refers to the end of the calendar year mentioned in the range as earlier

Country: Portugal

Data refer to calendar year

Country: Portugal

Data cover mainland only.

Country: Republic of Moldova

Data exclude the territory of the Transnistria and municipality of Bender. Data for indicator ''Places available in child-care centres per 100 children'' refers to 0-6 group of age.

Country: Romania

Break in methodlogy (2002): From 2002, reference population is the resident population

Country: Romania

Break in methodology (2010): data refer to formal child-care in public and private sector. Starting 2010 data refer to children aged 0 to less than 3 years. The reference population is the population aged 0-2 years. However in enrolled population also includes children aged 3 years and over. From 2014 data compiled according to ISCED 2011.

Country: Romania

Change in definition (1990 - 2012): Data refer to formal child-care in public and private sector.